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Long Period Benzene Measurements in Urban Atmosphere

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Urban Air Quality: Measurement, Modelling and Management

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Periodogram analysis has been used as an interpretative tool of long period measurements of benzene concentration in urban atmosphere. By removing the request of evenly sampled data, the periodogram allows to extend spectral analysis to this kind of data, which usually suffer the “missing data” problem due to instrument vacancies. In this way it is possible to identify the periodic behaviour of data concentration and then reproduce it by means of harmonic functions even for very incomplete experimental information allowing a good evaluation of some important statistical properties of data.

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  1. Laboratorio Inquinamento dell’Aria Centro Ricerche ISPESL, Via Fontana Candida, 00040, Monteporzio (Roma), Italy

    P. A. Bragatto, L. Lepore, D. Sacco & I. Ventrone

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via di Tor Vergata, 00133, Roma, Italy

    S. Cordiner & M. Feola

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  1. Atmospheric Science Research Group (ASRG), Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

    Ranjeet S. Sokhi

  2. Environmental Software and Modelling Group, Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Spain

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  3. Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Aristotle Unievrsity, Box 483, GR-54006, Thessalonika, Greece

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  4. National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

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Bragatto, P.A., Cordiner, S., Feola, M., Lepore, L., Sacco, D., Ventrone, I. (2000). Long Period Benzene Measurements in Urban Atmosphere. In: Sokhi, R.S., San José, R., Moussiopoulos, N., Berkowicz, R. (eds) Urban Air Quality: Measurement, Modelling and Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0932-4_11

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